Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan DoyleMacmillan, 23 ian. 2001 - 496 pagini Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review) This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and George Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle lived a life as gripping as one of his adventures. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, Teller of Tales sets aside many myths and misconceptions to present a vivid portrait of the man behind the leg of Baker Street, with a particular emphasis on the Psychic Crusade that dominated his final years-the work that Conan Doyle himself felt to be "the most important thing in the world. |
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The Empty Chair | 9 |
The Cobblers Lapstone | 17 |
The Great Northern Diver | 33 |
A Man of Doubtful Antecedents | 43 |
Three Pounds of Furniture and a Tin of Corned Beef | 58 |
You Have Been in Afghanistan I Perceive | 72 |
A Traveler from Slattenmere | 87 |
A Singularly Deep Young Man | 100 |
A Perfectly Impossible Person | 265 |
The Ruthless Vegetarian | 281 |
England on Her Knees | 292 |
An Audible Voice | 304 |
The Flail of the Lord | 317 |
Is Conan Doyle Mad? | 333 |
Away with the Fairies | 348 |
Pheneas Speaks | 364 |
Reams of Impossible Stuff | 116 |
The Two Collaborators | 133 |
The Tremendous Abyss | 145 |
A Skeleton in the Garden | 160 |
Mr Irving Takes Paregoric | 174 |
Duet with an Occasional Chorus | 189 |
Thoughts He Dare Not Say | 205 |
The Helpful Mud Bath | 217 |
The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound | 233 |
The Bondage of Honor | 249 |
The Ectoplasmic Man | 379 |
A Packet of Salts and Three Bucketfuls of Water | 398 |
The Case of the Missing Lady | 415 |
The End of the World | 427 |
A WellRemembered Voice | 440 |
Bibliography | 445 |
Acknowledgments | 453 |
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